Zanu PF official, healer caged over pangolin scales

ZANU PF Matabeleland North deputy provincial secretary John Khumalo (65) and a traditional healer, Sithembiso Tshuma (42), were yesterday jailed for nine years each for illegal possession of a pangolin skin.

Khumalo, of Jotsholo village in Lupane, at first denied the charge before admitting that he wanted to use the skin to seek treatment for his niece’s nose bleeding ailment.

He also said he got the skin from his co-accused when they appeared before Hwange provincial magistrate, Livard Philemon.

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